Passwords for 32M Twitter accounts may have been hacked and leaked
http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/08/twitter-hack/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29
The new Twitter hack, which LeakedSource says has 32,888,300
records containing email addresses, usernames, and passwords,
has been added to the site's search engine, which lets people
look for and remove leaked information. Based on information
in the data (including the fact that many users had their
passwords displayed in plaintext), LeakedSource believes that
the user credentials were collected by malware infecting
browsers like Firefox or Chrome. Many of the affected users
appear to be in Russia--six of the top 10 email domains
represented in the database are Russian, including mail.ru and
yandex.ru.
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I don't share passwords between services, and I use 2-factor auth on
Twitter. But man, this is getting monotonous.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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